[Gllug] Recommended distro

Huw Lynes huw-l at moving-picture.com
Mon Dec 13 10:17:23 UTC 2004


On Sun, 12 Dec 2004 18:11:46 +0000
Richard Turner <richard at zygous.co.uk> wrote:


> So, even given that I'm not a base-level desktop user, I'm still not
> sure what Debian would provide for me that other distros won't.  The one
> thing I can think of is that I could install it, spend ages making sure
> that services like netfilter, ntp, etc. are configured OK (the kind of
> thing that SuSe or FC installers do for you) and then not have to bother
> ever again because I could do 'apt-get dist upgrade' instead of having
> to reinstall when a new release comes along.  This might be enough for
> me, so I may try Debian, but it's not a convincing enough argument for
> me to be totally swayed.
> 

On RH/FC 

yum -y update

is your friend.


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